Kristina Marie Padilla, a 21-year-old resident of Big Stone Gap, Virginia, tragically lost her life on September 18, 2014. Kristina was a member of the 2011 graduating class of Appalachia High School and worked as part of the communications team at Sykes in Wise, VA. Her untimely death was the result of a violent incident involving her ex-boyfriend, Matthew Wesley Tate.
On the day of the incident, Matthew Tate, 27 years old at the time, confronted Kristina at a storage facility in Wise, V
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